My son is being a terror! HELP!

So he has been a pretty well behaved kid until just recently. He runs off in the store, knocks things over...will not listen when you ask him to do something theres just so many things he just won't listen at all and when you punish him with what used to work like the corner or taking something away he just laughs!

I am out of ideas on ways to discipline him. I am due in March with another baby and I can't have him continue to behave like this. Its embarrassing and stressful. Also he throws huge screaming fit tantrums when things are taken away now.

Where'd my sweet little boy who listens go? Any ideas ladies?

I thought they were supposed to get better around this age not worse.

I find myself crying thinking I am a failure because I can't control him lately.

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I give him a choice. Do what you're told or a time out. Walk with me in the store or ride in the cart. Pick up your toys or I will throw them out.
Its all about them having control. So I find with my guy a choice gives him that illusion. Sometimes he chooses a time out, once he chose a spanking, and he also chose for me to throw away his toy.
Being a control freak myself I understand so its only mildly frustrating.
I also have cut out the screaming and whining by teaching him to say how he feels instead of screaming and whining. Its a work in progress but we do have progress.

It is almost as if overnight, my DD has turned into a terror. Screaming, tantrums, fresh back-talk and telling me "no" all day. It is becoming more difficult lately and now DS is mimicking his big sister which puts me at a 2-1 disadvantage. I am exhausted by the time the day ends. Putting one kid after the next in time out, taking things away and breaking up fights between the two. She has even thrown a few cuss words in the mix. Hoping it passes before preschool starts in the fall...

In the grocery store my daughter has the very important job of list holder and crosser outer. She sits in the cart and crosses thigns out as I put them in. She takes her job very seriously and we dont argue over sitting in the cart anymore.

We have to realize that small children have short attentions spans and the 45 min grocery store visit can be very painful. I am constatly reminding myself that she is 3 and I should expect 3 year old behavior out of her.